MacOS Chrome WebDriver 'Element Click Intercepted element click intercepted' exception is thrown using click() on WebElement that is not in a viewport [duplicate]

Question

Starting from Google Chrome Browser 98 version, currently on Version 99.0.4844.83 as well, I observe weird behavior when use ordinary Selenium click() method on ordinary WebElement if it's not in a viewport. So I haven't performed any changes with my environment, Chrome WebDriver or imported to my framework Selenium library; the only change is autoupdating of Chrome Browser. Hence I bet the root cause of my problem is because of that.

I must mention that previously I have never seen such behavior before. So for example: If I try to click on any located WebElement, that is already found in DOM, but is not in a viewport, I get 'ElementClickIntercepted element click intercept...' exception.

• Now: If I want to click on a button that is displayed, but not in a viewport, the viewport will be scrolled to that element and the above mentioned exceptions is thrown just after implicit scrolling to it.
• Before: If I want to click on a button that is displayed, but not in a viewport, the button is clicked immediately without implicit scrolling to it.

Has anybody faced such behavior as me? Any thoughts about it?

P.S. Initially I haven't updated Chrome WebDriver and I started to observe such behavior. After that I decided to update Chrome WebDriver to make it consistent with the latest version of Chrome Browser. Both preconditions causes the same consequences.